Richard Matthew Stallman

Richard Stallman founded the free software movement in 1983 when he announced he would develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to consist entirely of free software. He has been the GNU project's leader ever since. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.

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This course is lead by the famous free software activist - Richard Stallman, founder of GNU and inventor of GPL. We will cover different topics of the hard way to the Free Digital Society. Our subjects are: Human rights in computing, Threats to the Free Digital Society, Software licenses and patents, Licenses to the Works of Authorship.